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This is better news - and I would certainly be a fan of getting any extra tagging done by the community.

My only slight concern would be to have a 'quality control' aspect to that - also possibly community based. Something like the 'Wikipedia' editor approach. However I am clearly not the person to speak to the practicality of this as an approach.

Sorry for the delay on providing an update on journals. With the launch of Logos 8, the holidays, some business travel, two funerals, and sickness, it's been an extra busy few months.

I think we've come up with an economical way to produce Galaxie's Theological Journal Library, vols. 1–20 while still ensuring that it'll show up in the Journals guide section (and be searchable using our journal label searching). It won't have all the markup we do to most resources, but it should deliver the essential value journal users are looking for and ensure we're not blocked by funding production costs. We should know in a few weeks if our approach will work. If it does, we shouldn't be too far away from shipping this product. This should also allow us not to have to run future versions of this product through Pre-Pub and wait for funding but instead either take pre-orders for a few weeks before shipping it or just ship and sell it.

We're also looking at the cost and funding levels for our four journal bundles (MJB, TJB, AJB, and TJLUB) and hope to have an update on them soon. It looks like the funding might be close enough to put them into production in the near future and then ship them not long after that. But we'll know more in a couple of weeks.

Any updates?

I'll follow up when I have more information to share. Thanks for your patience.

I found out my seminary pays over $200,000 per year just for access to the eBooks and journal articles it supplies to its students (that's not counting their print books, etc.). This is for access to EBSCO, ProQuest, etc., albeit with a search interface not as powerful as Logos.

My question for Phil is:

With Faithlife's history and relationships with digital publishers, Bible study platforms, and now getting into larger bundles such as Faithlife Equip, how hard would it be for Faithlife to:

We're also looking at the cost and funding levels for our four journal bundles (MJB, TJB, AJB, and TJLUB) and hope to have an update on them soon. It looks like the funding might be close enough to put them into production in the near future and then ship them not long after that. But we'll know more in a couple of weeks.

Just reviewing my growing prepubs, I notice, with any luck, the Journals prepub will soon be a year old. I'm assuming a few more kick-the-can Phil posts.

I'm always too humorous, and I minor-ly updated the new journals feature description (in parens) ..., that'd be from Logos 6 four years ago:

What is it?

The new Journals section lets you search the journals collections you own for Bible references and topics. With this new tool you can run a Passage Guide or Sermon Starter Guide report and get the most concise and up-to-date (or maybe not) recent information from your journals collections then organize your results by journal or by year.

How does it work?

Put the finishing touches on your next research paper with insight from a scholarly article, discover what’s driving today’s (or a few years ago) leading theological discussions, and get the most up-to-date (or maybe not) biblical research from some of the most respected pastors and scholars. Search your journals with ease with the new Journals Section.

Keep us not in suspense...is there any chance that Vetus Testamentum and Novum Testamentum will be added to Logos? Just to be clear, wanting the journals, the supplements, and the congresses. Been asking for these for at least a decade...have THOUSANDS of references to these two journals in my library.

I suspect - due to the inactivity many will have already gone elsewhere.

Sad - but probably true!

Shalom

I suspect a business decision has been made and it is not being communicated because it would disappoint us all. It is clear, very clear, that Journals are NOT a priority for Faithlife. They took the ball from Galaxie and fumbled.

I suspect - due to the inactivity many will have already gone elsewhere.

Sad - but probably true!

Shalom

I suspect a business decision has been made and it is not being communicated because it would disappoint us all. It is clear, very clear, that Journals are NOT a priority for Faithlife. They took the ball from Galaxie and fumbled.

We're really close to shipping. I'll see if we can get a projected ship date.

Keep us not in suspense...is there any chance that Vetus Testamentum and Novum Testamentum will be added to Logos? Just to be clear, wanting the journals, the supplements, and the congresses. Been asking for these for at least a decade...have THOUSANDS of references to these two journals in my library.

Unfortunately not in the immediate future. I don't remember the details on these, but I think it was a closed door last time we checked.

I suspect - due to the inactivity many will have already gone elsewhere.

Sad - but probably true!

Shalom

I have held off for a long time in the hope that the Logos edition will soon be available. This is taking far too long than I'd hoped for and with no end in sight, I am beginning to wonder if it is worth waiting for.

It would be sad If Logos do not carry these Journals but I do appreciate that the maths for Logos do not add up.

Keep us not in suspense...is there any chance that Vetus Testamentum and Novum Testamentum will be added to Logos? Just to be clear, wanting the journals, the supplements, and the congresses. Been asking for these for at least a decade...have THOUSANDS of references to these two journals in my library.

Unfortunately not in the immediate future. I don't remember the details on these, but I think it was a closed door last time we checked.